Anyway, I have some big updates for you, the main one being the logged-in homepage, which will be explained in more detail below. We wanted to give you all more notice about this change; however, the bank holiday yesterday messed with us a little, but in the future, we will endeavour to give you all more of a heads up about website changes.
Logged-in Homepage
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been hard at work rolling out new features using our updated backend frameworks. As part of this, we’re introducing a new, more customisable "logged in" version of the homepage, with a greater focus on tailoring it to the content you want to see.
Here’s a quick rundown of the new page:
Your favourite games are now highlighted instead of the most popular ones. We’ve made this list more compact and relevant to you. The Mods, Collections and Media lists that appear on this page are now scoped to your favourite games and reflect your preferences. You can select one or multiple games in these lists, and then refine them further on a full listing page by clicking "View more".
It’s now quicker to get to the pages you want to see. We’ve added more prominent links to your tracking centre, download history and My Content pages.
Feedback is important to us, and your comments about the logged-out homepage helped shape some of our design choices here. We’ve made the headers more compact and moved mods higher up the page compared to the old design. This should reduce the need to scroll and help you access the content you care about as soon as you land on the website.
We’re keen to hear what you think about the changes and the increased level of customisation. If you’d like to see even more personalisation options for this page in future, there’s a "Customise" button that lets us gauge interest in that feature.
The longer-term vision for this page is to become a hub for content that reflects your interests. Our first step in that direction is filtering the page to show content for the games you care about, rather than everything all at once.
Site changes
- Mod comment search links: Comments found through search now include a link that scrolls directly to the original comment on the relevant page.
- Mod removal messaging: Mods that have been removed now show whether they were taken down by the author or by staff.
- Supporter Image listings: These pages have been migrated to the new design system and now match the layout of standard Images and Videos pages.
- Media pages redesign: The generic Media pages, linked from the game home pages and showing both images and videos, now follow the updated design.
- Mobile search UI: We’ve updated the mobile search interface to match earlier improvements made on desktop.
- Custom date range on mobile: You can now filter by a custom date range when searching or browsing for mods on mobile devices.
- Wider notifications dropdown: The dropdown has been widened so that longer text entries are no longer cut off.
- Improved error messages: Errors that occur when fetching content now include more helpful messaging and links to contact support or check the site status.
- Preferences: We’ve made changes which make preferences linked to in the ‘Logged-in Homepage’ section better. If you have previously set your preferences to “Latest” or “Tracked”, you may have to update your preferences again
Tech Talk
- Forum tooling migration: Moved a lot of admin moderation tools from our old, deprecated forums to supported areas of the site.
- Security: Patched multiple security vulnerabilities.
- Caching improvements: Enhanced caching for unauthenticated users to reduce server load and improve performance.
- Code cleanup: Removed a large amount of deprecated and unmaintained code.
Eww, Bugs
- Game tiles: Fixed an issue where the download count would disappear on smaller screens. It’s now visible more often, and when space is limited, the collection's stat will drop off first instead.
- Notifications: Fixed a bug causing the ‘Collections’ category on the notifications page to return an error when viewed.
- Download counts: Skyrim Special Edition download count is no longer capped at 4.2 billion; it now correctly displays 7.4 billion.
- Moderation: Fixed an issue where some moderated content was briefly visible.
- Collection pages: Resolved some broken links to user profiles on collection pages that were returning errors.
- Tracked content pages: We fixed pagination issues that were preventing proper navigation.
- Mod media uploads: Fixed a bug where mod authors couldn’t add images or videos to their mods.
- Commenting: We resolved an issue that caused duplicate comments to appear.
As always, keep your feedback coming; we’ll bring more updates next month!
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For example, translation mods and waifu mods FILL the directories for most searches, and yet we STILL have no way to safely filter them out in 2025 because you STILL allow people to tag their own mods however they want. And the fact that literally anyone can publish a collection on Nexus with zero quality control makes the whole program ridiculous, because no one will ever find or trust any new collection in the future and they'll always default to whichever list got first mover advantage. All you need to do is look at the homepages of the most popular games on Nexus, they all will have the same collections featured on them from now until the end of time. Not to mention that the program pits list authors and mod authors against each other because there is only one pool of donation points.
It's situations like this that are causing discoverability problems and community problems on Nexus. Harder to solve than a website refresh, for sure, but I just think the long-term payoff would be so much greater.
Pretty much the link is something like "https://www.nexusmods.com//mods/6817" missing the "skyrimspecialedition" part.
Sometimes the issue solves itself by refreshing the page, but we had a few comments from people not finding the requirement and thinking they have been removed - which causes the mods not being playable.
In the meanwhile, you can resolve the issue by refreshing the page, as the bug is caused when you change tabs on the modpage.
I'm earning 1/4 of what I was earning before the change. That's from 2,000 points per month to 500 points. Which is equivalent to €10 every 5 months; now it's €10 every 20 months.
It's normal to be angry because that €10 feeds my entire family for a year, but of course, now it has to last almost two years, and it's not enough...
So please continue breaking the page with awful changes (search was fine, now it's totally unconfortable) but NEVER EVER PAY THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE PAGE USEFUL FOR THEIR UPLOADS
Cool, I look forward to seeing how the changes work since I mostly stick to Supporter anyway.
p.s. To be clear, it's still defaulting to only non-supporter. So I'm guessing the overhaul didn't kick in yet.
p.p.s. I notice the website is listing the time as 6:48 AM instead of 7:48 AM Eastern Time. I think it's got U.S. time zones off by an hour.
That would be very convenient to have.
cheers
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